Figure 1. Diagrammatic representation of the vibratome sectioning technique. A: Lenses were mounted on the anterior surface and sectioned beginning at the posterior pole. B: When viewed face-on, all sections contain portions of the suture planes. Typically the first 1-3 sections contain elongating fiber ends in the peri-sutural and sutural regions. C: An enlarged, edge-on view of the first two sections demonstrates that migrating fiber ends are present beneath the entire curved surface of the capsule in section #1. However, in section #2 (and all subsequent sections) elongating fiber ends are present only beneath the beveled edges of sections covered by capsule.